*planch*

n. [ F. planche. ] A plank. [ Obs. ] Ld. Berners. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., planche. See Planch. ] 1. A floor of wood; also, a plank. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) The under side of a cornice; a soffit. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To form of planks. [ Obs. ] Golding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. planchette a small board, dim. of planche. See Planch. ] A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready to be stamped as a coin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Planchet. ] 1. A circumferentor. See Circumferentor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small tablet of wood supported on casters and having a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes translated as of oracular or supernatural import. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The laying of floors in a building; also, a floor of boards or planks. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Splanchnapophyses [ NL. See Splanchnic, and Apophysis. ] (Anat.) Any element of the skeleton in relation with the alimentary canal, as the jaws and hyoidean apparatus. -- Splanch`nap`o*phys"i*al a. Mivart. [1913 Webster]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; an entrail. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the viscera; visceral. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; an entrail + -graphy. ] Splanchnology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; an entrail + -logy. ] That part of anatomy which treats of the viscera; also, a treatise on the viscera. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; an entrail + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; side. ] (Anat.) The inner, or visceral, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See Somatopleure. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Splanch`no*pleu"ric a. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; an entrail + E. skeleton. ] (Anat.) That part of the skeleton connected with the sense organs and the viscera. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; an entrail + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to cut. ] The dissection, or anatomy, of the viscera. [ 1913 Webster ]